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A 6 page essay that contrasts and compares three novels. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Jane Austen's Emma and Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev are novels that each address the trials and tribulations of young protagonists as they come of age and enter the adult world. In each case, the author utilizes the literary devices setting, structure, and characterization in order to dramatize how each protagonist does or does not fit into the context of their social world. Huck, Emma and Asher are each, to a certain extent, a misfit in that world and their stories dramatize aspects of their era, their society and the individual character of each protagonist in the way that they adapt to their specific society. No additional sources cited.
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as they come of age and enter the adult world. In each case, the author utilizes the literary devices setting, structure, and characterization in order to dramatize how each protagonist
does or does not fit into the context of their social world. Huck, Emma and Asher are each, to a certain extent, a misfit in that world and their stories
dramatize aspects of their era, their society and the individual character of each protagonist in the way that they adapt to their specific society. Writing in the late nineteenth
century, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) sets the story of Huckleberry Finn in the antebellum South. Hucks journey in this novel, which is both literal and psychologically, forces him to evaluate
the morals of his society in regards to slavery. Huck has to decide to capitulate to the way that society pictures slavery or follow his own conscious. Jane Austen, who
was also writing in the nineteenth century, pictures a well bred, comfortably brought up young English woman, Emma Woodhouse. Like Huck, Emma is something of a misfit in her society
because she does not desire marriage, which was the only truly viable future for a woman of her social station. Emmas story depicts her adjustments and adaptations to what was
expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Hasidic Jewish community of Ladover. Asher is
also a misfit, due to his artistic talent, which does not mesh well with his society, his parents expectations or his Jewish heritage. As these brief descriptions of the three
protagonists suggest, setting is crucial to the story in each novel. The setting of the antebellum South in Huck Finn offers Twain a pallet on which the issues and
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